@robinhanson re 'Showing That You Care', http://nautil.us/issue/16/nothingness/take-two-sugar-pills-and-call-me-in-the-morning … placebo genetics: COMT -> dopaminergic -> reward sensitivity -> social ties?
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@gwern The psych barrier against docs admitting publicly that they give placebos is big. I'm not sure data showing they help is enough.
@robinhanson @gwern They'd lose the trust of patients, who expect to be told the truth.
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@NickSzabo4@gwern You could claim docs did tell the truth when they told patients they were getting "placebos". But I doubt thats enough. -
@robinhanson@gwern Then the placebo effect would go away. It depends on dishonesty. -
@NickSzabo4@gwern That claim is plausible but disputed. But it seems enough for people to believe claim to keep docs from using placebos
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